PDF Annotation, Transcription Expert – Japanese

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🌐 Canada, Japan, +2 more countries – Remote

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote 🇯🇵 Japan – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $33 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👻 Ghost score 20%

What it means: how likely this posting is sitting open without active hiring.How to read it: 60% or higher means we think this is a ghost. Lower scores are less of a worry.How we score it: age, reposts, open roles vs team size, how fast jobs close, and whether pay is listed.Fine print: an estimate from public data, not a judgment of the company. Real jobs can score high, so treat it as a hint, not a fact.

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Weekday (YC W21)

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

💼 Consulting

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

Consulting • HR Tech • SaaS

Weekday is a modern recruitment platform that combines AI technologies with a vast database of potential candidates, aiming to streamline the hiring process for companies in India. They offer various services, including a proactive outreach approach that helps employers connect with top talent, as well as tools for candidates to easily apply for jobs. Weekday's emphasis on candidate engagement through multiple channels, including email, WhatsApp, and phone calls, sets it apart in the competitive landscape of recruitment agencies.

📋 Description

• Open and check provided PDF-page tasks; confirm the page is in Japanese, legible, contains real content, and has no personal details • Identify and bound every meaningful page region, assign component types, and set reading-order indices • Link regions to their associated figures or tables using parent component identifiers • Transcribe all text exactly as shown, including kanji, hiragana, katakana, furigana, and handwriting; flag illegible regions • Capture language, document type, source, page dimensions, and table, formula, and handwriting flags • Review colleagues' work end to end as a second Japanese expert

🎯 Requirements

• Native Japanese speaker with full command of kanji, hiragana and katakana, including furigana and variant character forms • Professional experience in interpretation, journalism, transcription, translation, editorial work, or comparable document-intensive work • Character-level accuracy and attention to exact transcription • Systematic application of a taxonomy across hundreds of pages • Comfortable working with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms • Experience with annotation, labeling, grading, bilingual evaluation, MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, post-editing, typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, digitization, Unicode normalization, Japanese input methods, full-width and half-width forms, or kanji variant handling are nice-to-have specialties